“Much intelligentsia and little football”: discourses about a player who reads

• Autor(a) principal: Vieira da Silva, Francisco
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Domínios de Lingu@gem
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/dominiosdelinguagem/article/view/32882
• topic: Leitura; Discurso; Jogador-leitor; Reading; Discourse; Player-reader

The present article takes as a starting point the publication of a fact, embodied in many news, on different websites, in the month of march 2015. This fact refers to the creation of a blog of reading by Wallace, a Flamengo defender. Considering the discussions raised by Roger Chartier about reading as a cultural practice, in confluence with the notions of discourse and enunciation, in the proposition of the archeological method, postulated by Michel Foucault, we aim, in this article, to analyze some news and commentaries of readers of the respective news about the creation of Wallace’s blog, in order to describe and interpret certain representations that construct the image of the player-reader, looking at the sense effects and the memory networks which are present in the constitution of these discourses. Methodologically, this is a descriptive-interpretative study, whose approach follows an eminent qualitative direction. The corpus is composed by two news and four commentaries about Wallace’s blog, published on Brazilian websites and blogs. The analyses show the existence of a variation on the modes of enunciation about Wallace. We believe that this variation is articulated to the reflexes that the existence of a player-reader incises on the production of naturalized discourses about reading, in the exteriority of enunciations about this practice.